John Hood

Two 12-pounder Napoleons stand west of the Old Hagerstown Pike at Antietam National Battlefield, opposite David Miller’s famed Cornfield. They are not there for ambience—they mark the positions of Battery B, 4th U.S. Artillery, during...

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard almost took command of the Army of Tennessee in 1864. Almost. “Atlanta gone,” Mary Boykin Chesnut wrote in her diary in early September 1864. “Well—that agony is over.” With that blunt statement,...

Gen. Sherman’s Atlanta conquest took a little longer than he hoped. Five grueling months, to be exact. Joe Johnston insisted after the war that he had not been surprised by Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman at the outset of the Atlanta...

The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood’s First Sortie, 20 July 1864 By Robert D. Jenkins Sr., Mercer University Press 2014, $35 Robert Jenkins Sr. has provided the historical community with its first book-length, in-depth treatment...

Recently discovered doctor’s reports prove the general did not use opiates. Time to rewrite some Civil War history. No Civil War commander wounded in the line of duty has been the subject of as much unsubstantiated speculation as...

John Bell Hood Stephen M. Hood’s article on General John B. Hood in the April 2015 issue hits the mark perfectly. Some of us have known for a long time that the legend of Hood’s laudanum use is a bunch of malarkey, but having...

Newly recovered Hood papers refute Spring Hill story Confederate General John Bell Hood has always been blamed for allowing Union Maj. Gen. John Schofield to slip past him at Spring Hill, Tenn., on November 29, 1864, setting the stage for...

FEATURESClick Here to Subscribe! Fighting Words William Tecumseh Sherman and John Bell Hood didn’t mince words over Atlanta. Irreconcilable Differences North and South were so fundamentally contrary that everybody could see a day of...

Near the sluggish creek on the outskirts of Atlanta, new Confederate commander John Bell Hood struck the first 'manly blow' for Atlanta,living up to his lifelong reputation as a fighter--but accomplishing little. It would be a bad omen for...

Carnage in a Cornfield By Robert C. Cheeks Mr. Miller’s humble cornfield near Antietam Creek became the unlikely setting for perhaps the worst fighting of the entire Civil War. On Sunday night, September 14, 1862, Confederate General...

In love, as in war, Confederate General John Bell Hood was the personification of bad luck. When Confederate General John Bell Hood rode into Atlanta in July 1864 to take charge of the embattled Army of Tennessee, he was already in the...

Pfc. Dan Bullock died at age 15 in 1969 and efforts to recognize the young African-American Marine continue and are highlighted in this Military Times documentary. (Rodney Bryant and Daniel Woolfolk/Military Times)...

The surrender Sherman and Johnston crafted at Bennett Place was monumental. It very nearly never happened.
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